Word: successful
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American experts fear the safeguards are inadequate. The IAEA is understaffed and lacks experience in inspecting full cycle systems. Washington also worries that Bonn may have as little success monitoring reactors in Brazil as Ottawa did in India; the Indians were able to divert nuclear materials from a Canadian-supplied power reactor in order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that...
...Daddy has several reasons for wanting to settle the matter quickly. The summit meeting of the 43-nation Organization of African Unity is scheduled to be held next month in Kampala, and Amin, as the host, desperately wants it to be a success. Last week the government of Botswana announced that it would boycott the Kampala meeting because of Amin's "disregard for the sanctity of human life." Several other member states, possibly including Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, may do the same...
...typical Austen characters, tirelessly wrapped up in their own worlds, are there from the start. Mr. Parker is preoccupied with the financial success of Sanditon. Lady Denham, his collaborator in the resorts development, is obsessed with avoiding her numerous poor relations who, she is sure, are out to get her money. Sir Edward Denham, one of these poor relations, recites poetry, inaccurately and inappropriately, trying to turn the head of every young lady around. There is an officious and hypochondriacal set of Parker relatives; there is the beautiful and aloof Clara Brereton: there is the morose and mysterious young...
...rider can go over the course alone prior to the competition, but the horse is seeing the jumps for the first time. Much of the success of the horse in jumping relies on the judgement of the rider as to the speed of the mount, the angle of approach...
...hopes to cap his promotions with a $12 million Ali-Joe Frazier rematch, probably in the Philippines. That would bring the total take of King ring deals to more than $30 million. "He's done impossible things," says Ali. Adds King in his booming baritone: "Right now my success is phenomenal...